Right to the saucer

A BARGE crew was dumbstruck by a spinning shadow with pulsating "ghostly white lights" at sea one night.

Their compass went haywire and the vessel began to swing on its own near the coast of Groote Eylandt, according to a statement filed with the Royal Australian Air Force in Darwin on January 23, 1964. They were, after all, the official channel for UFO reports.

In 1959, the Darwin branch of the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society was born.

The same year came the mystery of the "Mandorah Monster" - a 30m-long shadow that lurked in the harbour.

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If extraterrestrial life out there is that smart that they can fly light years in a blink of an eye or even possibly fold space time i doubt that they would even look at us primitives except as for a possible food source and or resources.